Alumni
A Model of Good Behavior
Albert A. Menashe JD’76 is tired of bad jokes about unscrupulous lawyers. “Lawyers do a great deal of good for many segments of our society,” he said. “The image we have is not really deserved.” Menashe, managing shareholder of Gevurtz, Menashe, Larson & Howe in Portland, has made it his mission for the last 25 years to help change the negative image of lawyers by heightening professionalism among members of the Oregon bar.
Students
Born for the Law
“I’ve been interested in the law since I was very young,” said Leila Kimbrell, the 2006 editor in chief of Willamette Law Online. Although she described her upbringing as working class, few people in her immediate family are surprised by her decision to attend law school. “I remember being really young and wanting to be a lawyer,” she noted.
Faculty
A Broader Appreciation for the Law
Every summer when she was young, W. Warren Binford’s father would pack up the family for a month-long road trip. “He would drive to the end of our street, turn to us and say, ‘OK, where to?’” These excursions took Binford to almost all 50 states and allowed her to see a side of life her childhood in Los Angeles otherwise would not have provided. “Those trips really gave me an appreciation for others — that we are all part of a larger world community,” said Binford, an assistant professor of law and the director of Willamette’s Clinical Law Program.
